Nationwide prevalence of Rickettsia felis infections in patients with febrile illness in Bangladesh [PDF]
New Microbes and New Infections, 2017 From July 2015 to December 2016, the presence of rickettsial pathogens was investigated for 414 patients with unknown fever in eight places in all the divisions of Bangladesh. Rickettsia felis was identified in blood samples from all the regions (overall
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Diagnosis of Two Meningitis Cases Caused by Rickettsia Felis in China, with Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing: A Case Report. [PDF]
Infect Drug Resist, 2023 Background Rickettsia felis is a kind of zoonotic pathogen. Rickettsia felis infections of the central nervous system are rare with only a few cases reported worldwide. The early diagnosis of R. felis is difficult due to its nonspecific clinical features
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New Microbes and New Infections, 2018 Rickettsia felis, the causative agent of flea-borne spotted fever, occurs on all continents except Antarctica, owing to the cosmopolitan distribution of its cat flea vector. In this study, cat fleas were collected in two countries where the occurrence of
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Rickettsia felis in Xenopsylla cheopis, Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Rickettsia typhi and R. felis, etiologic agents of murine typhus and fleaborne spotted fever, respectively, were detected in Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from rodents and shrews in Java, Indonesia. We describe the first evidence of R.
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Molecular Detection of Rickettsia felis in Fleas of Companion Animals in East Texas. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2022 Flea-borne spotted fever is an emerging insect-borne rickettsial infection caused by Rickettsia felis and has been identified worldwide. This study sought to explore the prevalence of rickettsiae associated with fleas on companion dogs and cats from ...
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Rickettsia felis and Other Rickettsia Species in Chigger Mites Collected from Wild Rodents in North Carolina, USA. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Chiggers are vectors of rickettsial pathogenic bacteria, Orientia spp., that cause the human disease, scrub typhus, in the Asian–Pacific area and northern Australia (known as the Tsutsugamushi Triangle).
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Cat Flea Coinfection with Rickettsia felis and Rickettsia typhi. [PDF]
Vector Borne Zoonotic DisPurpose: Flea-borne rickettsioses, collectively referred to as a term for etiological agents Rickettsia felis, Rickettsia typhi, and RFLOs (R. felis-like organisms), has become a public health concern around the world, specifically in the United States ...
Laukaitis-Yousey HJ, Macaluso KR.
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Global emergence of Rickettsia felis infections: the hidden threat in pets and their fleas
Microbiology AustraliaThe globally emerging pathogen Rickettsia felis uses the cat flea as a biological vector and can cause serious infections in humans. Rickettsia felis can be transmitted to numerous mammalian hosts, but to date, only dogs have been demonstrated as an ...
Lucas G. Huggins, Vito Colella
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High Genetic Diversity and Rickettsia felis in Pediculus humanus Lice Infesting Mbuti (pygmy people), -Democratic Republic of Congo. [PDF]
Front Cell Infect Microbiol, 2022 Pediculus humanus is an obligate bloodsucking parasite of humans that has two ecotypes, the head louse and the body louse, which share an intimate history of coevolution with their human host.
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Dynamic gene expression in salivary glands of the cat flea during Rickettsia felis infection. [PDF]
Pathog Dis, 2021 The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, is an arthropod vector capable of transmitting several human pathogens including Rickettsia species. Earlier studies identified Rickettsia felis in the salivary glands of the cat flea and transmission of rickettsiae ...
Danchenko M, Laukaitis HJ, Macaluso KR.
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